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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

41km NNE of Toms Place, CA

· 6.3 km deep · released about 830 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mono County 29 kmMineral County 68 kmEsmeralda County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Mono County, 29 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2010 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 830 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 18,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 830 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 37.9118, -118.5488. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mono County, CA 29 km (18 mi) E of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 68 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Esmeralda County, NV 82 km (51 mi) W of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mariposa County, CA 126 km (78 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mariposa County
Madera County, CA 132 km (82 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Madera County
Alpine County, CA 135 km (84 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Alpine County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

48 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.6 4km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  2. 2.6 4km E of Mammoth Lakes, CA
  3. 1.5 38km SSW of Qualeys Camp, NV
  4. 1.7 26 km S of Mina, Nevada
  5. 1.6 9km S of Toms Place, CA
  6. 1.6 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  7. 1.9 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  8. 1.6 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  9. 1.6 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  10. 2.2 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  11. 1.5 40km NNE of Toms Place, CA
  12. 1.9 27 km SSW of Mina, Nevada
  13. 2.4 29 km S of Mina, Nevada
  14. 1.5 27 km S of Mina, Nevada
  15. 1.9 13km SE of Mammoth Lakes, CA

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.2 on 2020-04-11 — it released about 2,600 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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